ral smaller vessels; and taking his passage in the Duke, of 90 guns, Captain Gardner, he arrived in the West Indies in March, and thus participated in the victory of 12th April, 1782, over the French fleet, being on board the Repulse, 64, Captain Dumaresq. Sir George Rodney had at once offered him a birth on board his flag ship, but as Captain Dumaresq was an intimate friend, he requested permission to join the Repulse. Colonel Tupper became a major-general on the 12th October, 1793, and, having attained the rank of commandant in chief of the marines, he died in London in January, 1795, his decease being probably hastened by the fall of his only son, at Bastia, a few months previously.

Major General Tupper married, at Cork, Ann Chilcott, the daughter of a gentleman who had been a captain in the fusileers. He had two children, Carré✶ and Ann; the latter, famed for her beauty, survived him,-she was the wife of Lieut.-Colonel 'Connell, of the Limerick militia.

Subjoined is an extract from the London Star of 19th November, 1794:

The marine corps feel the utmost satisfaction at the appointment of Major-General Tupper to be colonel commandant of that corps, in the room of the late Lieut.-General Smith.

On Friday last the officers of the Chatham division, which General Tupper has for some time commanded with great credit and honor to himself, waited on him in a body to congratulate him on his appointment, and to express their sincere acknowledgments for his kind and polite attentions to them, so uniformly and happily blended upon every occasion with the due and necessary authority of military discipline. On Saturday the officers gave a dinner to the general, at their mess-room, on his resignation of the divisional command to Colonel Barclay until the arrival of Major-General Innes, who is appointed to it.

So named from Mr. Carré, his mother's uncle, and a wealthy banker in Dublin.

LIEUT. CARRÉ TUPPER, OF H. M. S. VICTORY.

A brief mention is made of this officer at page 105. He was born on the 11th February, 1765, and obtained his lieutenantcy in 1782, at the early age of seventeen, but the peace between 1783 and 1793 retarded his further advancement. Soon after the declaration of the war in 1793, he was actively employed in the Mediterranean, and he had already given fair promise of reaching the summit of his profession when he was suddenly cut off at Bastia, in the island of Corsica. We have heard that he was, unknown to himself, a commander, having been promoted by the admiralty for his recent services at Toulon; and it is certain that Lord Hood, from the same cause, promised him the first commander's vacancy, which occurred a very few days after his death, and which was given in consequence to the present Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore, K. C.B., then also a lieutenant of the Victory. In person he was tall and remarkably handsome, and Tupper was a dashing, gallant fellow," was an observation made to the editor by a distinguished British admiral, now living, who knew him.

The following are extracts relative to his brief

career:

From Sir Sidney Smith's official Letter to Admiral Lord Hood, describing the destruction of the ships and arsenal at Toulon, on the night of the 18th December, 1793.

In this situation we continued to wait most anxiously for the hour concerted with the governor for the inflammation of the trains. The moment the signal was made, we had the satisfaction to see the flames rise in every quarter. Lieutenant Tupper was charged with the burning of the general magazine, the pitch, tar, tallow,

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and oil store houses, and succeeded most perfectly: the hemp magazine was included in this blaze. It being nearly calm was unfavorable to the spreading of the flames, but two hundred and fifty barrels of tar, divided among the deals and other timber, insured the rapid ignition of the whole quarter which Lieutenant Tupper had undertaken.

From JAMES' Naval History. Third Edition.

After describing minutely the conflagration at Toulon, &c., the author adds::

As well as we can collect from the official accounts published on the subject, the following were the British naval officers who accompanied Sir Sidney Smith in his perilous undertaking: Captains C. Hare and W. Edge, Lieutenants C. Tupper, John Gore,— (and several others whose names follow.)—Vol. I, page 114.

At length on the 21st May, 1794, after a siege of thirty-seven and a negociation of four days, the town and citadel of Bastia, with the several posts upon the neighbouring heights, surrendered on terms highly honorable to the besieged, whose bravery in holding out so long excited the admiration of the conquerors.

The possession of this important post was accomplished with the slight loss to the army of seven privates killed and dead of their wounds, two captains and nineteen privates wounded, and six privates missing; and to the navy, of one lieutenant (Carré Tupper, of the Victory,) and six seamen killed, and one lieutenant (G. Andrews, of the Agamemnon,) and twelve men wounded.-Ibid, page 272. Lieutenant Tupper was buried in a sequestered spot under the walls of Bastia, with this epitaph:

HERE LIES THE BODY OF

CARRÉ TUPPER, ESQ.

LIEUTENANT OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIP

VICTORY.

HE WAS KILLED BY A MUSKET BALL

IN BRAVELY ATTEMPTING TO LAND,
DURING THE SIEGE OF BASTIA,

ON THE 24th APRIL, 1794,
AGED TWENTY-NINE YEARS.

HIS ASSOCIATES IN ARMS
DEEPLY REGRETTED AN EVENT
WHICH DEPRIVED THEM OF

AN INTREPID, EXCELLENT OFFICER,
A WORTHY, AMIABLE MAN.

HE WAS BORN THE 11th FEBRUARY, 1765.

VISIT OF INDIAN CHIEFS TO GEORGE IV.

Transcript of a Letter from Irving Brock, Esq., to Miss Caroline Tupper, dated London, April 12, 1825.

"I went to Windsor on Wednesday last with the four Indians, accompanied by my friend Mr. W——, to show them the castle, Frogmore, &c.; but the chief object, which I had secretly in mind, was to have them introduced to his Majesty. Sir John C, the late mayor of Windsor, assisted me very effectually, and the upshot of the matter is, that the king expressed his desire to see the Indian chiefs, although every body treated this as a most chimerical idea. They wore, for the first time, the brilliant clothes which Mr. Butterworth had had made for them, and you cannot conceive how grand and imposing they appeared.

"The king appointed half-past one on Thursday to receive our party at the royal lodge, his place of residence. We were ushered into the library; and now I am going to say somewhat pleasing to your uncle Savery. As Sir John C was in the act of introducing me, but before he had mentioned my name, Sir Andrew Barnard interrupted him, and said: 'There is no occasion to introduce me to that gentleman,—I know him to be General Brock's brother,he and Colonel Brock, of the 81st, were my most intimate friends,-I was in the 81st with the Colonel. There was another brother whom I knew, he who was also in the 49th,-he was a gallant fellow. By

the bye, sir, I beg your pardon; perhaps I am speaking to that very gentleman.'

"In the library there was also present Marquess Conyngham, Lord Mount Charles, Sir Edmund Nagle, &c. &c. We remained chatting in the house above half an hour, expecting every moment to see the king enter, and I was greatly amused to observe Mr. W and Sir John C― start and appear convulsed every time there was a noise outside the door. We were admiring the fine lawn when the Marquess Conyngham asked the Indians if they would like to take a turn, at the same time opening the beautiful door that leads to the lawn. The party was no sooner out than we saw the king standing quite still, and as erect as a grenadier on a field day, some forty yards from us. We were all immediately uncovered, and advanced slowly towards the handsomest, the most elegant, the most enchanting man in the kingdom, the Indians conducted by Marquess Conyngham, Sir Edmund Nagle, Sir Andrew Barnard, Lord Mount Charles, &c. &c. The range of balconies was filled with ladies. Sir John C, Mr. Wand I, allowed the party to approach his Majesty, while we modestly halted at a distance of twenty yards. It was worth while being there only to see the benign countenance of the greatest monarch in the world, and to witness his manner of uncovering his head. The four chiefs fell on their knees. The king desired them to rise, and entered into a great deal of preliminary conversation. I saw him turn towards the marquess, and after a few seconds he said, with his loud and sonorous voice: 'Pray, Mr. Brock, come near me,-I pray you come near me.' I felt a little for my companions who continued un